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Ale Posset

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Nutmeg
  2. a pint of ale
  3. Sugar
  4. a pint of milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Pur a small piece ofliread into a pint of milk, and set it over the (ire.
  2. Put nutmeg and sugar into a pint of ale, and when your milk boils, pour it upon the ale.
  3. Let it stand a few minutes to clear, and it will be fit for use.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
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Credit

From Cookery made easy (1825), printed page 153, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21531304

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.